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Have you actually decided to get a place closer to work? I just remember you talking about buying a place with your parents in Maple Ridge.
That Maple Ridge to Richmond commute is going to suck major balls in terms of fuel cost for a lot of these cars you are looking at. Even at a very conservative 12l/100km you are looking at almost $30 per day in commute costs on a 200km round trip.
For some perspective - my F80 M3 is 13l/100km, my MS3 was about 13l/100km, my NC Miata was about 13l/100km(mostly spirited driving), and my wife's F56 Cooper 3cyl was about 10l/100km. Everything takes premium.
If you don't have to drive clients, screw the back seat. We had a Miata and Mini as his and her cars and it satisfied 95% of our needs. Only time we needed a bigger car was when we bought BIG furniture from Ikea, and that was a once a year occurrence.
I think some one asked what are you looking for in a car? That's probably a better place to start. What exactly do you NEED it to do and fulfill?
I bought the F80 M3 because I needed:
1) manual
2) 4 doors
3) not FWD
4) minimal modding required
I wanted:
1) LSD on driven wheels
2) good seats
3) decent interior
4) new or reliable
There were only a few cars that satisfied my needs: Subaru WRX, Golf R, F80 M3, ATS-V
I was a few signatures away from driving away in a 2017 WRX Sport Tech. At the end of the day, I didn't buy it because I really did not like the seats and there were a few deficiencies that I couldn't get over without having to mod it. I ordered the F80 a few months later.
When I was shopping for the F80, the thought of a S2k + SUV occurred to me and it would cost around the same. But with a S2k I would probably tinker and mod way too much and I wanted to avoid that.
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